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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
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PINE Lab PI @ Northeastern, HAPPE EEG software creator, neuroscientist exploring how experiences shape brain & behavior development. Loves cheese. She/her
https://www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/
https://github.com/PINE-Lab/HAPPE
if you want to know what jargon you use too much in your science, ask your partner! They'll know and tell you fun things like: oh you're writing a grant? you gotta "harmonize" and "scaffold" "trajectories". 😆 Busted.
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨👀 Join Co-Chairs @santimoralesphd.bsky.social and myself to share developmental psychological research at APA in 2026 (August 6-8, Washington, DC)! Submissions are due on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, by 5 pm ET.

More information and submission requirements at (lnkd.in/ejUfZ4h5)
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December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users!

Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox?

Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment.

Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment.

Go check it out!

nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox
Sandbox
Lasso is designed to streamline secure access, querying, and responsible use of the ABCD and HBCD datasets.
nbdc.lassoinformatics.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.

pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...
pbs.jhu.edu
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Attn MRI enthusiasts! 📣

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I’m thankful to share this opportunity to join us as MRI Center Director! ✨ Couldn’t speak more highly of my time here so far—such a supportive & collaborative place to build a lab—and I’m more than happy to share more with anyone interested
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Applicants should have a funded independent research program and help contribute to our supportive and collegiate culture as an Institute! We support a range of MR sequences, integrations with other methodologies, and we are a highly-collaborative faculty! Join us!
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Northeastern University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health. 🧠🎶

Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).

Please help spread the word!

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We have longitudinal multimodal (EEG, MRI) datasets to richly characterize developmental plasticity and an interest in public health relevant prenatal factors (e.g. iron deficiency, prenatal stress) and postnatal factors: caregiving, music, and language experiences!
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🚨🚨 NEW Assistant professor position at Northeastern! Do you study sound/language/music + brain + health? Apply! We're so excited to add a new faculty member to our community! Please post widely, we begin reviewing apps Dec 15!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Laurel has a fantastic lab and you also get to hang out with other amazing trainees including from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (including from my lab)
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
www.nsf.gov
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If we haven't met yet, apparently I look like this (according to my toddler) 😂
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Excited to head to @isdp.org this week! And thrilled that I'll be recruiting graduate students and postdocs this cycle to join PINE Lab!
Please come say hi if interested (current lab studies here: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/current-stud...)
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague!

apply.interfolio.com/175428
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Coming up on 1 month post-surgery, have completed 60 days of EMA, 20 sessions of MRI, 16 sessions of fNIRS, 20 sessions of EEG, not to mention blood, saliva, and a host of other data collection. It's been super fun to hang out with folks in my colleagues' labs. (Also a little exhausting!)
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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9 DAYS until the abstract submission deadline for the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Cape Town!

Submit your abstract by 29 October 2025. LEARN MORE: https://ow.ly/vapZ50WYsSE

#ISMRM2026 #ISMRT2026 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MagneticResonance #MRI #MedicalImaging #MR #MREducation #CapeTown
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Applying for faculty jobs this cycle? Check out our latest special episode! @moeneuro.bsky.social and @drnancypadilla.bsky.social discuss when to apply, important considerations when preparing applications, and more! Listen below!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#AcademicBluesky #NeuroJobs
Applying to faculty jobs 101 — Stories of WiN
This episode features Dr. Monique Smith (Assistant Professor, UCSD) discussing faculty job applications with host Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano.
www.storiesofwin.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
headed to ISDP shortly? Come early for this wonderful session on advancing perinatal science through open and shared data- sponsored by the International Fetal and Infant Brain and Behavior (I-FIBB) Network! Excited to offer my perspective! @isdp.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
LOVELY people, collaborative place, excellent top 10 program! Incredible opportunity, please help us share widely!
🚨Job Alert!! Please share widely!!🚨

Where: Applied Psychology, Northeastern University

What: Clinical Professor (open rank), as new program director for our Master of Science in Counseling Psychology

Why: We are a fun department 🎉 Please apply!!
October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research
Increasing representation of youth in developmental neuroscience research is essential to elucidating neurobiological mechanisms of cognition, behavio…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Headed to @isdp.org next month?? Check out all the amazing events that our DEI committee has to offer! Make sure to save this image to help plan your conference.

#ISDP2025 @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @laurelgd.bsky.social @annamzhou.bsky.social @annavannucci.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM